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Towards sustainable wildlife management
An in-depth study for the promotion of community conservancies in Zambia and Zimbabwe
06/2022

Zambia and Zimbabwe, with Angola, Botswana, and Namibia, constitute the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KaZa-TFCA), which is the largest transfrontier conservation area in the world (520 000 km²), whose key objective is to join fragmented wildlife habitats to form an interconnected mosaic of protected areas and transboundary wildlife corridors. In this region, wildlife populations have declined over the past three decades, mainly due to poaching and loss of habitat.

Fostering coexistence through a poverty reduction approach
06/2022

The Tarija region of southern Bolivia encompasses four ecosystems, including the critically endangered Inter-Andean dry forests. Much of the forest composition has changed as a result of intensive human intervention.

Developing and evaluating a beehive fence deterrent through stakeholder involvement
06/2022

This case study highlights the process undertaken since 2001 to understand the effect honey bees had on elephants and to develop, evaluate and implement beehive fences at several sites in Kenya.

Building communities capacities to coexist with wildlife
06/2022

In Assam, northeast India, the Himalayan foothill forests provide essential habitat for the Asian elephant. The natural vegetation in the region is moist deciduous forest, but this has mainly been transformed and now contains a mosaic of land uses and vegetation.

Forest Restoration Improvement for Environmental Development and Sustainability in Central Asia (FRIENDS)
Forest Restoration Improvement for Environmental Development and Sustainability in Central Asia (FRIENDS)
05/2022

FRIENDS project aims to develop national capacities to successfully conduct large-scale forest and other wooded lands restoration, by enhancing know-how to prevent degradation.